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Monday, December 6, 2010

Broccoli and Cheddar Soup

A soup to brighten gray and foggy days.

From the kitchen of One Perfect Bite...The hillside into which our house is built is no stranger to fog. Normally, it burns away and we can go about our business in an unhampered fashion. Occasionally, the fog refuses to lift and we are marooned, at least until our driveway, which was not designed for the feint of heart, is visible again. That happened last week. We were buried in a fog so thick you could cut it with a knife. Trite but true. Save for missing fog horns, I'd have sworn I was on the coast of Maine. The sheer grayness of the day demanded counter measures. With a fire lit and loaves on the rise, I decided to make a soup du jour. I played with the idea of making a pea soup, but our fog lacked the characteristic yellow color of a true pea souper, and I wasn't sure the Silver Fox, who was suffering from cabin fever, would appreciate my humor. I still had broccoli and, because we always have a ready supply of cheese, I knew where I was going. I had to be a bit inventive because a lack of cream precluded using my usual recipe for a broccoli and cheese soup. The soup I came up with was easy to make and surprisingly good. The recipe is straight forward and you can't go wrong unless you allow the soup to boil once the cheese has been added to the pot. The cheese will break and curdle and, while that won't affect taste, it's not a pretty sight. While the soup can be reheated, it's best eaten the day it's made. If it becomes too thick, use additional chicken broth to thin it out a bit. This is a very nice soup and I think you'll enjoy it. Here's the recipe.

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A roaring fire, a good book and a bowl of this soup would make me welcome a foggy day. However, I could substitute snow for the fog. I'm making a grocery list and will add some additional broccoli and a few sharp cheeses. Oh, and some yeast.

Dear MaryHow are you?Wonderful soup. I can make it. I checked, all the ingredients are available in India, except Colby cheese. I shall try it soon.Have a look at my Kerala ( India) trip blog. I am sure you will like it.have a nice week

A wonderful fog picture! I'm glad you didn't have pea soup fog, because I don't like pea soup, but I adore broccoli-cheddar. I make my recipe almopst exactly like this. I make it low fat, and even with 2% or 1% milk, it still tastes good!

Okay, eating this right now. AWESOME! I'm vegetarian, so I subbed veggie stock for the chicken. My cheeses are Mo'Jack and NY Cheddar (what I had on hand) and the milk is 1% (what he had on hand). The soup came about because I had to get the broccoli out of the garden tonight before it froze.To counteract that ugly gray/brown you get with with veggie stock, I sprinkled in my latest obsession, TURMERIC! Very yummy soup. With fresh-baked bread.Thanks!

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